Thursday, November 1, 2007

Travel info

Kango, which is mentioned in a comment to one of my posts, is an interesting website. It's aim is to provide easily accessible travel information:
Our mission is to help people plan travel that fits their lives perfectly, whether that life is about window-shopping for gems in Beverly Hills, or simply finding hidden gems like a secret bathing pool uncovered by the tide in Kauai. Leave cookie-cutter vacations behind - Kango shows you creative options for romance, nature, glamour, or family fun.
The mission statement makes it sound as if the goal is to help all travelers, but the pictures and category headings make it look as if the website is really focusing on family travel. Thus, in addition to myriad pictures of children frolicking, there are category headlines such as "family friendly things to do in Hawaii," and "family friendly things to do in California."

I think this is a great idea. For years, I've been searching for family vacation plans by plugging phrases such as "family friendly _______" into Google, and hoping for the best. This website, though, looks as if it's already figured out what's family friendly and then consolidated all that information in one place.

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